Today, news comes from Connecticut about Bliss. It seems he is faring well when it comes to compensation for his 2012 gig as campaign manager for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon. How long the gig lasts is unclear as McMahon is in a primary against Christopher Shays.

“Bliss receives $7,500 every other week from McMahon under his compensation page, in addition to mileage reimbursement,” reports the Greenwich Time newspaper, based on new federal campaign reports.

The newspaper quotes state GOP Chairman Jerry Labriola Jr.: “Linda and Chris each went out and hired the best talent available. Our candidates are taking this race very seriously. You get what you pay for.”

The pay is a bit of a raise for Bliss over what we was making for Dubie two years ago. We reported then that his salary was $1,750 a week.

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About Terri Hallenbeck

Terri Hallenbeck covers the Legislature, state government and politics for the Free Press. She is a 1983 graduate of the University of Vermont. After two years in the Peace Corps, she started her career in daily newspapers in 1986 and worked as a reporter and editor in upstate New York before moving back to Vermont in 1998.

2 Responses to Former Dubie campaign manager well compensated

:.Thursday 16th, February 2012.. DRAFT..
:.To.. Detective Chronicle.. It’s The Case Of The Spinning Wheel Locked In The Tower.. Sleeping beauty can not be spared her face with destiny.. Whatever is locked away far from the reach of mortal man, will inevitable surface at the point of it’s most unfortunate influence.. Locking away information eventually will surface just when you thought that your home free.. Burying Deans records will eventually surface and the corruption exposed.. Tarring all those that aided and abetted.. Political wars rage on.. From an attorney general that focuses on republican Dubies’ finances during the campaign, all the while not lifting a finger in providing protection to the general public robbed by the felony fraud of Burlington mayor Kiss and his entourage of cronies.. Burlington telecom is history… It’s that double standard that causes the almost complete loss of faith in the people elected to protect the public trust.. Spin doctors are hired to handle the PR of a campaign.. This becomes the means of covering up actual events and spinning a yarn believed as if gospel.. Does big money work.. Yes.. Is there a counter to the great financial influence.. Yes.. But the question becomes how do you get the press to do their job..? I believe that if equal opportunity actually existed.. The public would vote for the person that best describes the problems we face, and the means to address them.. Seems simple.. Yes, it is.. But.. The influence by political money and it’s highly paid PR consultants are not the only large financial influence.. It’s the money used to influence the press that is at the heart of that out of sight, locked away spinning influence.. Money paid for advertising HAS an influence, and not just on the illiterate reading public.. So this is the ‘democracy’ that we so cherish and forcefully export..? http://www.defectivedetective.net
:.Most Respectfully Submitted.. paul@defectivedetective.net

I went to High School with that twit Bliss. I can say he is probably one of the most obnoxious people in our class and it is no surprise to me that he would be the leader of a campaign by a slimy woman like McMahon. That he is paid 7,500 ever other week is a joke, this “man” was not near the top of our class, had no friends and was generally a loser. And he still is, as he has not won a campaign for anybody. But I’m sure a Republican will hire him again, stupidly, and lose, which is fine with me.